I had written an extension, it replaces the original youtube player. Now it's beta version (at least it has a name...), there is no setup, no preferences, it just replaces youtube player to <video>Here the best quality</video>.
Code (don't even try to use master branch): https://github.com/paranormal/detube/tree/working Zip: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/de-tube/ You are free to install this addon and blame me. There another addon (written by Sukant Garg): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-my-youtube-day On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > hello, world\n > > I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This > has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos > display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered "To > render this video you need the Adobe Flash Player. Install latest Flash > Player". Has Youtube conspired against me, you, FreeBSD, the world? :-) > > I'm wondering if I have screwed up something. I'm running 9.1-STABLE as > of a few days ago, with up-to-date ports of emulators/linux_base-f10, > www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 and www/nspluginwrapper ports on FF20.0. > about:plugins says this: > > Shockwave Flash > > File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so > Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 > > MIME Type Description Suffixes > application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf > application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl > > > Since I haven't heard the FreeBSD community screaming "Gimme back > my Youtube!!!1!", I'll bite. What could the problem be? Is anyone > else but me able to play flash, like for example "The true science > of multiple universes" in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg ? > > Other types play just fine, like "Pt1gard's 10-Question Apollo Test" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPtiYiMCbQ > > I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching > with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. > > Regards, > > Jens
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